Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 28: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the CPI(M) today said the dropping of Martyrs’ Day and ex-Chief Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s birth anniversary from the list of public holidays for 2020 is disgraceful and such methods are bound to alienate the administration from the people.
“One fails to understand what the administration intends to achieve out of this absurd order,” senior CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami said.
“As long as July 13 is concerned, it has been a historic movement; a people’s movement for democratic rights and against tyranny. This day is a historic day and omitting it from the holiday list is disgraceful and an insult to those who have laid down their lives for the better future of Jammu and Kashmir,” Tarigami said.
He also expressed his resentment against the dropping of Abdullah’s birth anniversary from the list of holidays and said “he has been a towering and a well-known personality and a freedom fighter”.
“I am sure that such methods can only alienate the administration from the people,” Tarigami said, adding the history cannot be reversed.
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